Re: Named transaction

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Golub <pavel(at)gf(dot)microolap(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Named transaction
Date: 2009-06-17 17:45:30
Message-ID: 4A392BBA.3080909@dunslane.net
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> What in heck is a named transaction, and why should we care?
>>>
>> Isn't this just another name for a subtransaction or inner transaction
>> that can be separately committed?
>>
>
> AFAIK that's an "autonomous transaction", at least to some other RDBMSs.
>
>

Right, but since I had to ask what that was recently I though I'd use a
bit more description :-)

cheers

andrew

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